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Counting the Poor - New Thinking About European Poverty Measures and Lessons for the United States (Hardcover)
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Counting the Poor - New Thinking About European Poverty Measures and Lessons for the United States (Hardcover)
Series: International Policy Exchange Series
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The poverty rate is one of the most visible ways in which nations
measure the economic well-being of their low-income citizens. To
gauge whether a person is poor, European states often focus on a
person's relative position in the income distribution to measure
poverty while the United States looks at a fixed-income threshold
that represents a lower relative standing in the overall
distribution to gauge. In Europe, low income is perceived as only
one aspect of being socially excluded, so that examining other
relative dimensions of family and individual welfare is important.
This broad emphasis on relative measures of well-being that extend
into non-pecuniary aspects of people's lives does not always imply
that more people would ultimately be counted as poor. This is
particularly true if one must be considered poor in multiple
dimensions to be considered poor, in sharp contrast to the American
emphasis on income as the sole dimension.
With contributions from the world's foremost authorities on income
and social measurement, the book provides detailed discussions of
specific issues from a European perspective followed by commentary
from American observers. The volume considers (1) current standards
of poverty measurement in the European Union and the Organization
for Economic Co-operation and Development, (2) challenges in
extending those measures to account for the value of the provision
of in-kind and cash benefits from the government, (3) the
interaction of poverty measures with social assistance, (4)
non-income but monetary measures of poverty, and (5)
multi-dimensional measures of poverty. The result is a definitive
reference for poverty researchers and policymakers seeking to
disengage politics from measurement.
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